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Neanderthal genes may influence COVID-19 severity

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Gene variant linked to severe COVID-19

What we know about the new Covid-19 variants

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Understanding what is driving new variants of the coronavirus to appear and what the changes mean will be crucial in our vaccine arms race against Covid-19.

Covid-19 deaths in Africa: prospective systematic postmortem surveillance study

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Covid-19 deaths in Africa: prospective systematic postmortem surveillance study

IOM COVID-19 Impact On Points Of Entry Bi-Weekly Analysis 17 February 2021

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IOM COVID-19 Impact On Points Of Entry Bi-Weekly Analysis 17 February 2021 January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 show

COVID-19: Two-thirds of poorer countries are cutting their education budgets at a time when they can least afford to

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This is a critical moment when countries need to recover the learning losses the pandemic is generating, invest in remedial education, and use this window of opportunity to build more effective, equitable, and resilient systems. The learning poverty…

Country readiness for COVID-19 vaccines

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What is the process for countries to get COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility? January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 show

New COVID-19 cases decline for the third week in a row

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This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows…

In Brief: WHO calls out Tanzania for its lack of COVID-19 response

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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a statement on Saturday calling the lack of COVID-19 response in Tanzania “very concerning. building and international engagement in Sudan

Sudan: Humanitarian Response Plan 2021

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After a remarkable year of political transformation and progress made in ensuring people’s freedoms, the transitional period continues to open up opportunities for peace-building and international engagement in Sudan.

Blockchain-Driven Trade Technologies and the Potential Benefits for African Trade

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Just over two years ago, tralac published a blog about the potential of blockchain (also referred to as distributed ledger technologies (DLT)) for trade in Africa[1]. This blog is an update to that article, showing how much has been achieved in just…